Archbishop Kennedy High School - Kencensus Yearbook (Conshohocken, PA)

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Voices ”1 was a pain In the but, arrogant, and had a big ego a year ago. And I’m still the same person. ’’ — actor Don Johnson of Miami Vice. '7 try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo Is my really best experiment. To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word.” — actor Sly Stallone. ”As for Monday Flight Football, an additional factor came into play: me! ... I had commanded attention. I had palpable Impact on the show, giving it a sense of moment. ... If that sounds like ego, what can I say? I’m just telling It like it is.” — sportscaster Howard Cosell, from his book never Played the Game. ”1 was O.R. until I looked up in the sky and saw my father and Ty Cobb looking down at me. They took care of me.” — player-manager Pete Rose, after breaking Cobb's record of 4,191 hits. ’In that time I saw the end of the world.” — survivor dug from the mud after a dam burst in northern Italy and killed 268. ”lf hell exists, It would look like Mexico today.” — Paul Tirado Serrano, Mexico City cab driver, af- ter the earthquake that killed thousands. This stuff don’t mean beans. Thank God we’re alive!” — James Meeker, whose home in Alvion, Pa., was destroyed by a tornado. ’It’s heading toward new York with atomic-bomb strength.” — TV news announcer, warning of Hurricane Gloria. Bill thought he'd either die or get better. If he had anticipated the hardship this has been on the family, he might not have done It.” — Margaret Schroeder, wife of artificial heart recipient William Schroeder. If you corner a rat and you are about to butcher It — O.R.?The way I responded viciously and savagely, just like a rat.” — alleged subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz, ex- plaining to a neighbor how he felt. ”lt Is time for us as a nation to put our belief into action.” — Represen- tative William H. Gray III (D.-Pa.), urging sanctions against South Africa until apartheid policies are lifted. We are talking about a sovereign nation, and there are limits to what another nation can do. We cannot give orders to South Africa.” — Ronald Reagan. ”1 think that the chances of peaceful change In South Africa are virtually nil.” — Bishop Desmond Tutu. Come and get us. We ain't got a thing to lose, so come on down and get us. — a member of Philadelphia's radical association MOVE, to police, when ordered to leave the house that was later bombed. ”We cannot forgive or pardon the mayor because he is black. Me Is a black mayor who dropped a bomb on black folks, and he should be punished.” — Philadelphia civil rights activist Stanley Branche, on the MOVE bombing. I don't know what else I can do as a mayor other than to rely on those people that I’ve appointed to Jobs to make these decisions. — Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode. I’ve got to be the most unlucky man In the world.” — California's agriculture director Clare Berryhill, whose state was plagued by poisoned cheese, tainted water- melons and killer bees. All of the time and money and skill that we poured Into consumer re- search could not reveal the depth of feeling for the original taste of Coke.” — Coca-Cola president Donald Keough, announcing that the original formula would return af- ter three months of the new Coke. ’’In the very near future a small group of Americans will set out on a Journey to determine If the true pur- pose of U.S. senators Is to occupy space.” — Salt Lake City poster, joking about Jake Gam (R.-Utah). the first U.S. senator in space. I heard him do what he calls singing. It’s something like the noise a dying buffalo makes.” — voice teacher Robert Lansing, on Bruce Springsteen. 'Tou know what I wish for? I wish that when he dies he comes back as a woman — under his regime.” — rock singer Cyndi Lauper, on the Ayatullah Khomeini. ’After seeing the movie Rambo, I'll know what to do the next time something like this happens.” — President Reagan, commenting on the TWA hostage crisis. It makes you want to go out and kill a Commie.” — Lynette Badalementi, 15, reacting to Rambo: First Blood Part II. Murry up, man, you know I’m guilty. Rill me on the spot. ” — Sylvia Seegrist, to the judge at her arraign- ment after her shooting spree in a Springfield Pa., Mall killed two and wounded eight. Standing next to her Is the hottest place in the universe.” — singer David Bowie, after sharing the stage with Tina Turner. Any man who watches more than three consecutive (football) games on TV In one day can be declared legally dead.” — Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers. ”My problem for the first few years was that they kept dying on me.” — Ronald Reagan, on why it had taken so long to arrange a meeting with a Soviet Counterpart. Taken from Life Magazine January, 1986 The Best of 1985 Top Ten TV Series (figures are average weekly ratings) 1. The Cosby SHow (HBC), 30.9; 2. Family Ties (HBC), 28.3; 3. Murder, She Wrote (CBS), 24.4; 4. Dynasty (ABC), 23.6; 5. Cheers (HBC), 23.4; 6. Dallas (CBS), 23.1;7. 60 Minutes (CBS), 22.6; 8. Who's the Boss? (ABC), 21.7; 9. Monday Hight Movie (HBC), 20.8; 10. Hight Court (HBC). 20.7. Top Ten TV Specials (figures are average weekly ratings) 1. Super Bowl (ABC), 46.4; 2. Academy Awards (ABC), 27.7; 3. Perry Mason Returns (HBC), 27.2; 4. Monday Hight Football, Bears Dolphins (ABC), 26.8; 5. American Music Awards (ABC), 25.8; 6. Barbara Walters (ABC), 25.4; 7. Hollywood Wives (ABC), 25.2; 8. Family Ties (HBC), 24.7; 9. Gram- my s (CBS), 23.8; 10. Dirty Dozen: Hext Mission (HBC), 23.7. Top Five Movies 1. Beverly Hills Cop, 2. Back to the Future; 3. Rambo: First Blood Part II; 4. Cocoon; 5. Witness. Top Ten Grossing Movies (dollar figures in millions) 1. Back to the Future, $190; 2. Ram- bo: First Blood Part II. $180; 3. Cocoon, $85; 4. Witness, $65; 5. A View to a Kill, $63; 6. Goonies $61; 7. Fletch, $60; 8. national Lam- poon s European Vacation, $60; 9. Police Academy 11, $60; 10. Rocky IV, $45(1985 figure). Top Ten Albums 1. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen; 2. Like a Virgin, Madon- na; 3. Ho Jacket Required, Phil Collins; 4. Make it Big, Wham!; 5. We Are the World, USA for Africa; 6. Private Dancer, Tina Turner; 7. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits; 8. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears For Fears; 9. Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston; 10. Around the World in a Day, Prince and the Revolution. Taken from Star Magazine December 24, 1985

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This That • When Bruce Springsteen buys a bandanna, it costs about $1.30. If it finds its way into the marketplace after he's worn it, it's worth $300. • Madonna has about 50 crucifixes; Mother Teresa has two. • $1 million in hundreds weighs 20 pounds. If a robber tried to steal $1 billion in hundreds, he would have to carry 10 tons. • George Washington s presidential campaign cost nothing. Franklin Roosevelt s most ex- pensive one (1936) cost $5.2 million. The budget of Ronald Reagans last one: $40.4 million. • In 1940, 38 percent of Americans graduated from high school. Today, 86 percent do. • Mikhail Baryshnikov leaped about half a mile a day, or in all of 1985 about 182 Mi miles. • The 445 dancers who have been in A Chorus Line, which is in its 1 1th year, have worn out 6,485 pairs of shoes. • Every day, 6 percent of the U.S. population eats at McDonald s. • Since he began doing The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson has told an estimated 638,645 jokes. • In the 10 years since 1975, 49 Americans have been charged with spying, mostly for Soviets. In the 10 years before 1975, none were. • The most violent TV show, ABC's Lady Blue, has 50 acts of vio- lence per hour. On U.S. streets there are 150 per hour. • In 1940 there were 3,679 Americans over the age of 100. This year there are about 37.000. • Russia has the largest optical telescope in the world — 236.2 inches in diameter. Galileo's measured 1 inches in width. • Mouseplants, including poin- settias, are the most common poisonous substance in the home, nosing out cosmetics — but only if you eat them. • The place where more hotdogs are consumed than any other place in the world is Chicago-O'Hare Airport. • In 1956, when there were 42.8 million TV sets. Americans borrowed 489.5 million books from the public libraries. In 1985 there were 205 million TV sets and 1.2 billion books were borrowed. • 52 percent of U.S. women would rather have a good job than a good husband. • In 1985, 5,500 mailmen were bit- ten by dogs, or about 18 mailmen daily. • Tor Christmas 1984 — the last for which figures exist — Santa Claus had to come down 1.6 million new chimneys. • Charles Lindbergh spent $13,500 on the first solo flight across the Atlantic. A six-day trip around the world on the space shuttle costs about $ 125 million. • In 1975 Americans ate 1 18.8 pounds of beef per person. In 1985 they ate 65.7 pounds each. • If you flip a coin 500 times, the odds of it coming up heads 250 times and tails 250 times are 1 in 28. • Fifty years ago, there were 6,812,350 farms in the U.S. Today there are 2,125,056. • At last count there were, relatively, only a few more people than cows in Texas: 16 million people vs. 14.1 million cows. • 71 percent of American motorists pump their own gas. The state with the highest percentage of pumpers, 88, is Utah. Chilly Maine has the lowest, 33 per- cent. Taken from Tidbits ' People Magazine Bits Pieces For Bruce Springsteen, 1985 was one of the biggest years of his career. Born in the U.S.A. , Springsteen's seventh album, has sold more than 10 million copies which is the biggest in the history of Columbia records. It was the num- ber-one album of 1985 on the American charts and it produced seven Top Ten hits. Outside the United States, the record sold more than 5 million copies in 20 countries, and was the number-one album in West Ger- many, Britain, and the Netherlands in July of 1985. Springsteen s over- seas tour in 1985 strengthened his position as an international symbol of America. Raking in a record $117 million. Bruce wrapped up a 61 city, 14 month Born in the U.S.A. tour. The Jersey rocker lent a hand on We are the World and Sun City and con- tributed funds to troubled unions. He also refused Chrysler s request to use one of his songs in an ad. On July 13, 1985, more than 80 of the biggest names in music per- formed in Philadelphia and England for the largest charity extravaganza ever. This was Live Aid; a charity concert for African famine relief. Over the course of the 16-hour con- cert, as many as a billion and a half people in 160 countries tuned in. 72,000 people watched in England's Wembley Stadium and 100,000 plus people jammed into John F. Ken- nedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Among the performers and groups were Phil Collins, Madonna, Sting, Tina Turner, The Who, Paul Mc- Cartney, a special Led Zeppelin reunion with Phil Collins on the drums, and many more of the greatest names in entertainment. In the end, the nonstop concert produced $70.5 million to save lives in Africa. This was one of the many events to help Ethiopia and the needy around the world. Assistance by musicians began in December of 1984 with Band Aid. This was an all-star cast of British musicians to help support Africa. Their song Do they know it's Christ- mas began a long chain of support for the needy. Following their exam- ple was U.S.A. for Africa. This was the united support of American ar- tists to help Africa. 45 of the biggest names in American music such as Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie. Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, and many more sung We are the World which produced $37 million plus. In April, Hermanos , a brotherhood of 60 Latin artists sung together and raised money for the hungry in Latin America and Africa. In May, 40 heavy metal musicians. Hear 'N Aid, cut a single for famine relief. Canadian artists, northern Lights for African Society, raised $1.8 million and Christian Artists United to Save the Earth raised $500,000 for Africa. Besides aid to Africa, help also went to the American farmers and South Africa. In Champaign, III., 50 country and rock performers put on a 15-hour show which drew 78,000 fans and harvested $10 million. Ar- tists United Against Apartheid released Sun City' in October of 1985 to support black South Africa activists. Together, $137 million was raised for Africa and the needy of the world. To continue their help in 1986 for Ethiopia, U.S.A. for Africa is spon- soring Hands Across America in April. More than a million people will join hands across America to raise money. The previous section was written and compiled by Bill McMenamin and Maria lannozzi 16